A man entered through a gate near Dar al-Qada on Friday while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was standing and delivering the sermon... the hadith continues.Then a man entered through that same gate the following Friday while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was standing and delivering the sermon. He stood facing him and said, "Messenger of Allah, the livestock has perished and the roads have been cut off, so pray to Allah to hold it back from us."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his hands and said, "O Allah, around us and not upon us. O Allah, upon the hills, the small mountains, the valley bottoms, and where trees grow."He said, "So it cleared up, and we went out walking in the sunshine."Sharik said, "I asked Anas bin Malik, 'Was this the same man as the first one?' He replied, 'I do not know.'"
أن رجلا دخل يوم الجمعة من باب كان نحو دار القضاء، ورسول الله ﷺ قائم يخطب… الحديث. ثم دخل رجل من ذلك الباب في الجمعة (يعني المقبلة) ورسول الله ﷺ وهو قائم يخطب فاستقبله قائما فقال: يا رسول الله هلكت الأموال، وانقطعت السبل، فادع الله يمسكها عنا، قال: فرفع رسول الله ﷺ يديه، ثم قال: اللهم حوالينا ولا علينا، اللهم على الآكام، والظراب، وبطون الأودية، ومنابت الشجر. قال فأقلعت، وخرجنا نمشي في الشمس. قال شريك: فسألت أنس بن مالك أهو الرجل الأول؟ قال: ما أدري.
Bukhari narrated it in the chapter on seeking rain (1014), and Muslim in the chapter on seeking rain (897), both of them through Ismail bin Jafar, from Sharik bin Abu Nimr, from Anas, who related it.His saying, "on the hills," is the plural of akamah, which is a rise in the land. His saying, "and the ziraab," means the small mountains, the singular of which is dhirb, following the pattern of "katif."